Waiting - A Project in Conversation
transcript (Verlag)
978-3-8376-5458-5 (ISBN)
Scholars, architects, artists, and writers examine the theme of waiting a as particular experience of time, shaped by class, race, and gender.
Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. What does it mean to wait for a long period of time? How do people narrate their waiting? Waiting is about the senses. If you do not sense it, there is no waiting. We sense waiting in the form of boredom, despair, anxiety and restlessness, but also anticipation and hope. Prolonged waiting is like insomnia - a state of wakefulness, a kind of mood, an emotional state. But it is also about politics; affecting and affected by gender, citizenship, class, and race.
Blending ethnography, philosophy, poetry, art, and fiction, this book is a collection of works by scholars, visual artists, writers, architects and curators, exploring different forms of waiting in diverse geographical contexts, and the enduring effects of history, power, class, and coloniality.
Shahram Khosravi is a professor of social anthropology at Stockholm University. His research interests include anthropology of Iran and the Middle East, migration, forced displacement, and border studies.
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Prelude I. The Weight of Waiting
Waiting
Care to Wait
The Sea is Mohammad al-Khatib's
Sandhours
Prelude II. Stolen Time
Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention
Remain
Arriving to Depart
Refugees Welcome?
Asymmetries
Prelude III. Waiting among Dead Trees
Ecologies of Waiting: Stories of a Vacant Land
after the blast: near silence, rising
Prelude IV. Standing in Line
Queues
The Distance from Here
Waiting in Queues under Dictatorship
Our Silence will Swell Like a Mountain
A Tenuous Case of Trust
Contributors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.01.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 243 |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 s/w Abb., 27 Abb. in Farbe |
| Verlagsort | Bielefeld |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 225 mm |
| Gewicht | 191 g |
| Einbandart | kartoniert |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| Schlagworte | ART • Cultural Anthropology • Cultural Studies • Culture • Human • Migration • Philosophical Anthropology • Philosophy of Time • Visual Culture • waiting |
| ISBN-10 | 3-8376-5458-3 / 3837654583 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-8376-5458-5 / 9783837654585 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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